Includes bibliographical references and index

The social functions of beer drinking in Bantu Tiriki / Walter H. Sangree -- Drinking patterns of the Bolivian Camba / Dwight B. Heath -- Ambivalence and the learning of drinking behavior in a Peruvian community / Ozzie G. Simmons -- A new cross-cultural study of drunkenness / Peter B. Field -- Alcohol and complex society / Selden D. Bacon -- Status conflicts and the changing ideologies of the American temperance movement / Joseph R. Gusfield -- Drinking status and status arrangements / Gregory P. Stone -- Drinking and socio-economic status / Joseph J. Lawrence and Milton A. Maxwell -- "Failure" as a heavy drinker : the case of the chronic-drunkenness offender on Skid Row / Earl Rubington -- Attitudes toward drinking in the Irish culture / Robert F. Bales -- Culture and Jewish sobriety : the ingroup-outgroup factor / Charles R. Snyder -- Teenage drinking in the United States / George L. Maddow -- The problems of drinking in college / Robert Straus and Selden D. Bacon -- First drinking experience as related to age and sex / Albert D. Ullman -- The public drinking house and society / Marshall B. Clinard -- The significance of roles and norms in the small group for individual behavioral changes while drinking / Kettil Bruun -- The definition of alcoholism and the estimation of its prevalence / Mark Keller -- The ecology of alcoholism : a beginning / John R. Seeley -- Cirrhosis mortality in the large cities : implications for alcoholism and intercity comparisons / Arthur Pearl, Robert Buechley and Wendell R. Lispcomb -- Phases of alcohol addiction / E.M. Jellinek -- A rank order analysis of the symptoms of alcoholism / Harrison M. Trice and J. Richard Wahl -- Cultural differences in the meaning of alcoholism / E.M. Jellinek -- Adult drinking patterns of former problem children / Lee N. Robins, William M. Bates and Patricia O'Neal -- A longitudinal study of the personaity of alcoholics / William McCord and Joan McCord -- Problem drinking and role deviation : a study in incipient alcoholism / Peter Park -- The self-concepts of alcoholics / Ralph G. Connor -- Alcoholism and the family / Joan K. Jackson -- The job behavior of problem drinkers / Harrison M. Trice -- Alcoholism and suicidal behavior / Ernest G. Palola, Theodore L. Dorpat and William R. Larson -- Criminal careers of the chronic drunkenness offender / David J. Pittman and C. Wayne Gordon -- Alcohol, values and social control / Edwin M. Lemert -- The therapeutic role of Alcoholics Anonymous as seen by a sociologist / Robert F. Bales -- Alcoholics Anonymous : an interpretation / Milton A. Maxwell -- Alcoholism is a disease : implications for social policy / John R. Seely -- What the state does about alcohol and alcoholism : an international survey / Archer Tongue

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